Observatory of Trends in Software Related

Abstract—Microblogging has recently become a popular means to disseminate information among millions of people. Interest-ingly, software developers also use microblog to communicate with one another. In Twitter, many developers microblog or tweet about bugs, new IDEs, new programming languages, etc. Different from traditional media, microblog users tend to focus on recency and informality of content. Many tweet contents are relatively more personal and opinionated, compared to that of traditional news report. Thus, by analyzing microblogs, one could get the real-time information about what people are interested in or feel toward a particular topic. In this paper, we describe our microblog observatory that aggregates more than 58,000 Twitter feeds, captures software-related tweets, and computes trends from across topics and time points. Finally, we present the results to the end users via a web interface available a